Hero’s Journey Children’s Book Project

Project Overview

The Hero’s Journey Archetype has appeared all over the world for thousands of years. From The Odyssey to Star Wars to Finding Nemo, it is a pattern that has consistently mesmerized audiences of all ages, interests, and backgrounds. For the grand finale of our unit on The Odyssey, you will write and illustrate a children’s book that follows the Hero’s Journey Archetype.

Project Objectives

Apply the Hero’s Journey Archetype to your own writing by writing and illustrating a modern hero’s journey narrative.

Apply various literary devices to your own writing in order to enhance engagement and clearly and creatively express ideas.

Reflect on your learning experience by pulling textual evidence from your final product to support claims about your mastery of the learning goals.

Common Core Standards

RL.9-10.1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

RL.9-10.2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.